[Talib Kweli and background singer]
Kweli and I'm (bright as the stars that shine)
Mos Def is (bright as the stars that shine)
(that's what I'm talkin about, yeah)
Black Star is (bright as the stars that shine)
(and you notice, yo)
We keep hip hop (bright as the stars)

[Mos Def]
Uh it's me (who?) Mos, the most beautiful, plain and unusualBlack Star rockin with that hot shit you're movin to
Massively musical that creep into your tuner to
The top of the dial shit, that you don't know my style shit
It's what them Brooklyn niggas stay on foul wit'
No matter what the scene is surroundin
Yo, whether I'm on the grind or loungin
I'm live and he say that I'm foundin
Must suffer all the niggas I'm down wit'
This announcement gon' keep the ghetto bouncinWhere people find pleasure in measurements and ounces
Midwest, big stress is more houses
Down South slangin the twang that it's pronounced in
East on that foul shit, West, they straight clownin
Black Star got the shit they all get down wit'
Don't tell me you gonna seen or been around in
(Mos Def) Terror stricken on your block
I am the mucher worker with the hottest hand
I keep it cookin like pots and pans
I know that haters got their plots and scams
But they simply can't stop my clanIt's mighty Mos and super Kwa, my man
Black Star my fam
About to move on the hearts of man
Until a small heart of hearts expand
Newer day, dog start the jam
And I spit flame that spark the jam
Heavy hittin shit across the fence
In other words I'm of the wall with this
I drop heavy jewels and ornaments
To make 'em shine a little more with this

[Talib Kweli and background singer]
Black Star is (bright as the stars that shine)
Mos Def is (bright as the stars that shine)
Kweli is (bright as the stars that shine)
(I wanna hear the guitar)
We keep hip hop (bright as the stars that shine)
(yeah, come on, yeah)
We keep hip hop (bright as the stars that shine)
(yeah, what we do, what we do, yo)
We keep hip hop (bright as the stars that shine)
(yeah, Brooklyn, uh)
Keep hip hop (bright as the stars)
And all my people is (bright as the stars that shine)
(come on, everybody in the house tonight, yeah)
And all my people is (bright as the stars that shine)
(yeah, take it with me now, uh)
And all my people is (bright as the stars that shine)
(yeah, I'm feelin this one, come on)
And all my people is (bright as the stars that shine)
(how we do it yall, uh)
(bright as the stars that shine)

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